LIBRARY 


M. Knoedler & Co. 


14 East 57th St. 
New York 


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Executors Sale ~  1/ 
CATALOGUE 
Modern Paintings 


SOLD BY AUCTION 


BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS OF THE 


Late Mr. FJobn Wolte 


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FREE EXHIBITION 


FROM SATURDAY, APRIL 7TH 
UNTIL TIME OF SALE 


Thursday Evening, Hpril 12, 18904 


AT EIGHT O’CLOCK 
AT THE 


Fitth Ayenue Hert Gatieries 
No. 366 FIFTH AVENUE 


NEAR 34TH STREET 


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ROBERT SOMERVILLE ORTGIES & CO. 
AUCTIONEER MANAGERS 


1894 


R. JOHN WOLFE was an enthusiastic 

lover and connoisseur of fine paintings 

when few people in this country had 

the taste or knowledge to take advan- 

tage of what was good in art. He was 
widely known, both here and abroad, for his taste 
and judgment in art matters, and was largely instru-, 
mental in directing his cousin, Miss Catherine Wolfe, 
in the selection of the magnificent collection of pictures 
which she bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum. 
Mr. Wolfe’s reputation as a good judge was established 
when his first collection was sold in 1863, bringing 
the large sum, at that time, of $114,000. <@ Almost 
immediately after his first sale he began to form a 
second collection, to which he devoted much time and 
knowledge, and which was sold April 5 and 6, 1882, 
realizing $132,000. _<@ Again more pictures were pur- 
chased to live with for the rest of his life. This final 
collection is now offered for sale at auction by order 
of his executors. It is needless to say that each 
painting is worthy of careful attention as a choice 
example of the artist represented, and that many of 
them are extremely difficult to get at this time. “@ 
The collection will be sold entirely without reserve ; 
no pictures have been added or withdrawn. 


Pndex of Hrtists’ Mames. 


ACHENBACH, A., 19 FALERO, 23, 38 

ARTZ, 39 GALLAIT, 30 
AcHENBACH, O., 45 Hunt, Wm., 13 
BERNIER, 26 HENNER, I4 

BEYLE, 27 HASENCLEVER, 48 
BRIoN, 44 LASALLE, 3, 6 

ComBA, 2, 5 Letoir, M., 8, 15, 42 
CHAPLIN, 17 Devo, L.,).20,' 31 
CHELMONSKI, 25 LEFEBVRE, 34 
DESCHAMPS, I, 4, 7 LOoBRICHON, 35 
Duvievx, IO MEyERHEIM, 28, 36, 46 
Der VRIENDT, 24 PRADILLA, 33 

Dort, 37 RIEFSTHAL, 47 

Dupre, JULIEN, 40 SCHENCK, 41 

DE KEysER, 43 TAMBURINI, 9, 18, 29, 32 
FreRE, E, 12, 21 WorRMS, II 


Fortuny, 16 ZAMACOIS, 22 


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| Conditions of Sale. 


xr. The highest Bidder to be the Buyer, and if any dis- 
pute arise between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in 
dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. 


2. The Purchasers to aire their names and addresses, 
and to pay down a cash deposit, or the whole of the Pur- 
chase-money z/ required, in default of which the Lot or Lots 
so purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold. 


3. The Lots to be taken away at the Buyer’s Expense and 
Risk upon the conclusion of the Sale, and the remainder 
of the Purchase-money to be absolutely paid, or otherwise 
settled for to the satisfaction of the Auctioneer, on or before 
delivery ; in default of which the undersigned will not hold 
sheneehrae responsible if the Lots be lost, stolen, damaged, 
or destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the 
Purchaser. 


4. The sale of any Article is not to be set aside on ac- 
count of any errorin the description. All articles are ex- 
posed for Public Exhibition one or more days, and are sold 
just as they are, without recourse. 


5. To pervert inaccuracy in delivery and inconven- 
ience in the settlement of the Purchases, no Lot can, on 
any account, be removed during the sale. 


6. If, for any cause, an article purchased cannot be de- 
livered in as good condition as the same may have been at 
the time of its sale, or should any article purchased there- 
after be stolen, misdelivered, or lost, the undersigned are 
not to be held liable in any greater amount than the price 
bid by the purchaser. 


7- Upon failure to comply with the above conditions, the 
money deposited in part payment shall be forfeited; all 
Lots uncleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold 
by public or private Sale, without further notice, and the 
deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale, shall be made 
good by the defaulter at this Sale, together with all charges 
attending the same. This Condition is without prejudice 
to the right of the Auctioneer to enforce the contract made 
at this Sale, without such re-sale, if he thinks fit. 


ROBERT SOMERVILLE, AvucrTiongEr. 
By Orteises & Co. 


Catalogue. 


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| 0 : 
DESCHAMPS (Mille. A.) ve 3. Paris 
Dance of Cupios 
714 xX 12 
Water Color, after CHAPLIN 
2 
Ve a COMBA (B.) ___.. . Madrid 
Fifter the aasquerade 
6x8 
Water Color 
LASALLE (Louis) : Paris 
The Fagot Gatherers 
8 x 10 


Water Color 
5 


ALO 


. : 
DESCHAMPS (Mmlle. A.) . share 
Che Fair Penitents 


8 x 10 
Water Color, after BOUGUEREAU 


5 
COMBA (B)-.. -.. | Meee 
The Alchemist 
6x 8% 
Water Color 


6 
LASALLE (Louis), > (3) 2 


Wayside Chat 


8x9% 
Water Color 


7 
DESCHAMPS (Mmlle. A.) .  . Paris 
Che Fair Artist 
74% x11% 
Water Color, after CHAPLIN 


8 
LELOIR (M) ; > 2 |e 
Pupil of his father 
Medal, 1878 
Ebstraction 
II xX 14 
Water Color 
6 


9 
TAMBURINI(A.) . ; i Paris 


The Cellar of a Monasterp 
a7 ig 10 x I2 


Io 
DIEU XIN) «.> .. Paris 


be Venice 
. <Co 181% x 11 


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WORMS (J.) . : Paris 
Pupil of Lafosse 
Medals, 1867-68-69-78 
Legion of Honor, 1876 


Pe Che Bashful Lover 
12% x 10 
Water Color 


I2 


PepeRe (Ed);dec’d . . . ... Paris 


Pupil of Delaroche 


en Medals, 1850-52-55 
e Legion of Honor, 1855 
Born, 1819. Died, 1886 


Che First Earrings 
| Qx II 
: Water Color 

7 


13 


HUNT (Wm.) LN London 
Fruit 
oO 
uf 9% x6 
Water Color 
14 
HENNER (Jean J.) . ; ; Paris 


Pupil of Picot and Drilling 
Prize of Rome, 1858 
Medals, 1863-65-66-78 


ve 1) Legion of Honor, 1873 
is Officer Legion of Honor, 1878 


Tovls 
124% x8¥y¥% 


15 
LELOIR(M.). : F , Paris 
Pupil of his father 
Medal, 1878 
I40 

/ In Distress 

10% x 14 

Water Color 


8 


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J - (Mariano), dec: d We Parish) 4. 4) wm 
ts ° Pupil of 1 the Barcelona Academy ; enue " 


aS Prize of Rome, 1856 
ies Chevalier of the Order of Charles III 
Diploma to the memory of deceased artists 
sO niversal Exhibition, 1878 
Born, 1838. Died, 1874 


A Veteran 
"94x11 


Pen and Ink Drawing 


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"CHAPLIN Bee eC Cie!) )) Paris 
| Pupil of Drilling — 
Medals, 1851-52-65 ‘ 


Legion of Honor ¢ 
Officer of the Legion of Honor 
Born, 1825. Died, 1891 


i. nnocence » 


6% x8 
Water Color 


18 
TAMBURINI(A.) .  .  . Paris’ 
EH Sine Wintage 
} 74%4x9 
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19 
ACHENBACH (Andreas) . Dusseldorf 
Pupil of Schirmer 
Medals, 1839-55-67 
Legion of Honor, 1864 
Member of the Antwerp, Amsterdam and Berlin Academies 


erring Fishermen at 
Scheveningen 


IIx 12% 
Water Color 


20 s 
LELOIR (L.), dec’d . Paris 
Pupil of his father 


Medals, 1864-68-70-78 
Legion of Honor, 1876 
Born, 1843. Died, 1884 


Hfter the Duel 
13%x8% 


Water Color 


21 
FRERE (Ed.), dec’d . i ‘ Paris 
Pupil of Delaroche 


Medals, 1850-52-55 
Legion of Honor, 1855 
Born, 1819. Died, 1886 


Mamima’s Darling 
814 x II 
Water Color 


phe) 


22 
ZAMACOIS (E.), dec’d . : Paris 
Pupil of Meissonier 
Medal, 1867 
Diploma to the memory of deceased artists 
/ 20 Universal Exhibition, 1878 
Born, 1843. Died, 1871 
Spanish Shepherd 
6x 10% 
Water Color 
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PepeRody 4). Paris 
be ou Flonorable Mention, 1889 
bes SLES GES Day 
| | 19% X 39 
24 
DEVRIENDT (J.) . Brussels 
Order of Leopold 


Wnvestiture of the Order of the 

; Golden Fleece 

ie wy Ws cy 39 X55 

ie 25 

| CHELMONSKI (Jos.) .  . Munich 


Honorable Mention, 1882 
Grand Prize Exposition Universelle, 1889 


H Startled Team, Russian Post 
Station 


at 68 x 27 
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, 26 
BERNIER (C.) . : : Paris 


Pupil of L. Fleury 
Medals, 1868-69-78 
Legion of Honor, 1872 


Landscape, Brittany 
78 Xx 53% 


27 
BEYLE (P. M:).° > oe 
Medals, 1881-87-89 
Fishermen, Coast at Dieppe 


55 X42 


28 


MEYERHEIM (Paul) .  . Berlin 


Pupil of his father and Berlin Academy 
Member of Berlin Academy and Société Belge des 
Aquarellists 
Medals, Berlin, 1866-72; Paris, 1876; Munich, 1883 


Fable of the For and Stork 
57 X 74 


29 7 
TAMBURINI (A) _. ; ; Paris 


The Declaration of Love 
144% x19% 


12 


30 
GALLAIT (Louis), dec’d Brussels 
Pupil of Hennequin 
Medals, 1835-48 
Legion of Honor, 1841 
Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Oak, Holland 
Llonorary member of the Royal Academy, London 
Grand Medal of Honor, Brussels 
Member of the Academies of Antwerp, Berlin, Munich and 
Brussels 
Chevalier of the Order of Leopold aud Prussian Order of 
Merit 
Born, 1810. Died, 1887 


Huguenot Family Reading the 
' Bible 


8 x 10 
Water Color 


. 31 
mel (Lj decd... Paris 
Pupil of his father 
Medals, 1864-68-70-78 
Legion of Honor, 1876 
Born, 1843. Died, 1884 


: Hustrian Patrol Guard, Sixteenth 


Century 
| 974 X13 
| Water Color 


32 
HAMBURINI(A.).-.. °.  ’ Paris 
El Stitch in Time 


bh, | IOx 11% 


13 


33 
PRADILLA(F.)_. : : Madrid 


Pupil of San Fernando Academy, Madrid, and Spanish 
Academy at Rome 
Bh b Director of Spanish Academy at Rome 
Legion of Honor, 1878 
Medals, Vienna, 1882; Munich, 1883 


Eifter the Bath 
xid3 
ei Color 


34 
LEFEBVRE (Jules) . : : Paris 
Pupil of Coignet 
Prix de Rome, 1861 
vay 10 Medals, 1865-68-70-78 
Legion of Honor, 1870 
Officer of Legion of Honor, 1878 
Grand Prize, 1889 
Member of the Institute of France, 1891 


Za Femme Couchee 


Study for picture belonging to Alexander Dumas 


16% x 8 


35 
LOBRICHON (T. M.) : . Paris © 
Pupil of Picot 
Medals, 1868-82 
7 7. o Legion of Honor, 1883 
Mamma’s Miniature 
2814 x 36% 
14 


36 


MEYERHEIM (Paul) . . Berlin 
] Pupil of his father and Berlin Academy 
440 9 Member of Berlin Academy and Société Belge des 
Aquarellists 
A Darwinian Prebistoric Social 
Party 
The unevolved clubman of the period 
44 x 20% 
37 
DORE (Gustave), dec’'d . : Paris 
Chevalier of Legion of Honor, 1861 
Ly a Officer of Legion of Honor, 1879 


Born, 1832. Died, 1883 
Don Quixote and Sancho enters 
tained by Basil and Quiteria 


2814 x 36 
38 
Bem. ee eae Paris 
' Honorable Mention, 1889 
gem re Right 
“i ian 7” 1934 x 3834 
ee Sin 39 
| ie. ARTZ (A.) : : The Hague 
Hs The Wledding Troussean 


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| 3834 x 5034 
15 


40 : 
DUPRE (Julien) >) ce Paris 
, Pupil of Pils 


Rees Medals, Paris, 1880-82 


ov 


770 


Medal, Universal Exhibition, 1889 
Legion of Honor, 1892 


Returning from Pasture 
78 X 53 


41 
SCHENCK (A.) : Paris 
Pupil of Coignet 
Medal, 1865 
Chevalier of the Order of Christ, of Portugal and Isabella 
the Catholic 
Medal, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876 


Sheep in Snowzstorm 


97 x 69 


42 
LELOIR (M.)_. : ; Paris 
Pupil of his father 
Medal, 1878 


harvest Festival 


108 x 69 
16 


43 
DE KEYSER (N.) 4 : Antwerp 


Pupil of the Antwerp Academy 

S ity 0 Great Gold Medal, Brussels, 1836 

Medal, Paris, 1840 
Chevalier of the Order of Leopold 
Officer of the same, 1855 
President of the Antwerp Academy 
Member of the Bavarian Order of St. Michael 
Commander of the Order of the Oaken Crown 


Love's Poung Dream 


‘¢ There’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young 
dream.’’—MOoorE. 


56 x 53 


44 
BRION(G.), decd . . . Paris 
ov Pupil of G. Guerin 
Medals, 1853-63-67 
Medal of Honor, 1868 
Legion of Honor, 1863 
Born, 1824. Died, 1877 


Village Wedding Procession, 
Eilsace 


50 X 31 


45 
ACHENBACH (Oswald) . ‘Dusseldorf 


a-v Pupil of his brother 
oh Medals, 1859-61-63 


Legion of Honor, 1863 


Gennenzano, near ome 
5834 x 39 
17 


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46 


MEYERHEIM (Paul) . . Berlin 


Pupil of his father and Berlin Academy 
Member of Berlin Academy and Société Belge des 
Aquarellists 
Medals, Berlin, 1866-72 ; Paris, 1867; Munich, 1883 


fable of the Fox and Stork 
57 X 74 


47 


RIEFSTHAL (W.) |) 9) eee 


Member of the Royal Academy of Art, Berlin 
Gold Medal, Berlin, 1868 


Procession of Tyrolean Capuchin 


Monks in Oratory 
78 X 49 


48 


HASENCLEVER (J. P.) . Dusseldorf 


Pupil of Schadow and Dusseldorf Academy 


Life in the Studio 


A portrait of the artist as a model of one of the figures in 
his celebrated painting ‘‘ The Wine Tasters,’’ purchased 
direct from the artist by Mr. Wolfe. 


39 x 60 


ROBERT SOMERVILLE, ORTGIES & CO., 


AUCTIONEER. MANAGERS. 


JOHN C. RANKIN CO., 84 CORTLANDT ST. M.Ve 


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